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How does doping affect athletes' health in the long and short term?

This weekend promises to be an exciting one for sports fans. The World Aquatics Championships in Singapore begin their third weekend of competition, while the prestigious Tour de France concludes on ...
Outside

Researchers: Hold Your Breath to Get an Effect “Similar to Blood Doping”

If you could patent and sell the idea of holding your breath before exercise to boost performance, it would be a bestseller. Not because it works, necessarily—the jury is still out on that. But ...
Medscape

ACSM Position Stand: The Use of Blood Doping as an Ergogenic Aid

Sawka, Michael N. Ph.D., FACSM; Joyner, Michael J. M.D.; Miles, D. S. Ph.D., FACSM; Robertson, Robert J. Ph.D., FACSM; Spriet, Lawrence L. Ph.D., FACSM; Young, Andrew ...
The New York Times

Simona Halep’s four-year doping ban reduced to 9 months after successful appeal

Simona Halep’s appeal against a four-year doping suspension has been upheld with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reducing her ban to nine months. The former world No 1 and two-time Grand Slam ...